ISG 362 - Occupational Health, Safety, and Hygiene

The aim of this course is to enable students to identify occupational risks they may encounter in the field of nutrition and dietetics, and to understand and apply principles of occupational health, safety, and hygiene. It aims to develop safe and hygienic working habits in food production, institutional catering, and clinical environments.

Concepts of occupational health and safety, legal regulations, occupational accidents and diseases, risk assessment methods, personal protective equipment, fire and emergency management, laboratory and kitchen safety, food hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, microbiological risks, sanitation practices, and hygiene management in mass catering systems

Bülent Nazlı 2018. Food Hygiene and Sanitation Lecture Notes, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Department of Food Engineering, Halkalı, İstanbul

Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services. Occupational Health and Safety Legislation.

1. Exam dates are as announced in the table. Make-up exams will be given for exams that are not taken within the framework of excuses accepted according to IZU regulations.
2. Final exam covers topics covered throughout the semester. Final exam date, time and place will be announced by the Institute.

1. Attendance: According to the regulation, if a student does not attend 30% of the total course time, he / she gets absent from the course (DZ) and fails.
2. Arriving Late: You are expected not only to come to the class, but also to attend classes on time. Please note that late arrival to 3 classes will count as 1 complete absenteeism. Arriving late to class is defined as: The instructor takes the class attendance and attends the lesson after the first 10 minutes of the lesson.
3. Getting Help: It is important for your education to ask your questions about the lesson and learn the subject on time during the lesson or during the meeting hours. We recommend that our students seek assistance when necessary.
4. Academic honesty: You are expected to have your own efforts and work in the studies that will be the subject of the course grade. In immoral situations such as plagiarism, copying, disciplinary investigation is opened in accordance with the relevant regulation of IZU and you are subject to the necessary penal sanctions.